Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Level: [41] Item - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 117r-131r
Title:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat
Scope & Content:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat in the table of contents, incipit: 'Diem? omni in horarum...' F. 119r is a palimpsest. The text was written over an erased diagram. A part of a similar unfinished diagram is on f. 131v. Decoration: Initials in blue. 12 diagram...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios, followed by two unfoliated leaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 132r-132v
Title:: Astronomical text on making almanacs
Scope & Content:: Astronomical text on making almanacs, incipit 'Nota faciendi artificialis almanak planetarum', entitled in the margin 'Modus componendi almanak in brevis'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 133r-134r
Title:: 'Tractatus de naturiis planetarum'
Scope & Content:: Astronomical text listed in the table of contents as 'Tractatus de naturiis planetarum', incipit: 'Saturnus est primus que scripsimus...' Decoration: Initials in red. Includes two tables (ff. 133v, 133r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 134v-138v
Title:: Alkindus (al-Kindi), De mutatione temporum
Scope & Content:: Alkindus (al-Kindi), De mutatione temporum, here attributed to Dorotheus and listed as the 'Tractatus de imbribus et pluviis' in the table of contents. Decoration: Initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 139r-162v
Title:: Liber novem iudicum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Liber novem iudicum (imperfect). The text on ff. 156-162v was supplied by a diffferent, slightly later hand. Decoration: Initials in blue. Places left for diagrams (ff. 147v-149r, 150v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 163r-172v
Title:: Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford
Scope & Content:: Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford (entitled 'Liber fratris Perscrutatoris de impressionibus aeris' in the table of contents). Decoration: Initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, f 82v
Title:: List of the Knights of the Golden Fleece
Scope & Content:: A list of the Knights of the Golden Fleece, beginning with Archduke Albert of Austria.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Between 1598 and 1621
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 1r-4r
Title:: Poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus
Scope & Content:: A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus, incipit: 'Nymphae, candidulae Nymphae...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1603
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 5r-9v
Title:: Correspondence between Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Francis de Vere.
Scope & Content:: Includes a letter from Henry Percy (b. 1564, d. 1632), Earl of Northumberland, to Sir Francis de Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), and De Vere's reply, see Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3: With addenda 1547-65 (1870), Queen Elizabeth - Volume 283: April 1602: Letter from Henry Perc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century, after 1602
Extent:: 4 folios; followed by a flyleaf (f. 10).

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 11r-44r
Title:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624
Scope & Content:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624,relates to the Ambyona massacre of 1623 in which ten Englishmen in the service of the British East India Company were tortured and executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company on Ambon Island (now Indonesia).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1624
Extent:: 34 folios.

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